Ageing 2

Question 1

What was neugarten theory?

Answer 1

• life course is bio-socially structured through events such as birth, education, work, marriage, childbirth, children leaving home, retirement and widowhood
• more predictable the event, i.e. the more socially expected it is, the less likely it is to demand individual adjustment
• less predictable the event (e.g. death of an adult child) the more effortful the adjustment and the greater the risk of being destabilised